The NCAA's four divisions are not based on merit, and sometimes teams with poor records can be ranked at the top, while teams with good records can only be ranked at the bottom. This time, Villanova was placed in the West Division, where she was the No. 2 seed in Anaheim, Southwest California.

When I saw the roster of 16 teams in the Western Conference, the eyes of several players who played for Villanova last season lit up. They still remember last season's reluctance to lose to the University of Arizona in the semifinals of the National Championship, and this year, the top seed in the West Conference is the same old enemy.

The rookies didn't understand why the seniors were so excited, but after they learned about the team's feud with the University of Arizona last season, a fire raged in everyone's hearts. Isn't now the perfect time for revenge? As long as Villanova and Arizona make it all the way, they will always meet in the Western Conference finals, and then they will be disgraced.

Chang Wei admires the old guys on the NCAA Basketball Tournament Selection Committee, I don't know whether intentionally or unintentionally, I don't know if they are in the same place, and they insist that their hearts are very dark, or that everything is on par with attention. As long as it can attract the attention of the fans, they are willing to do it, and a repeat of last season's Final Four is a good gimmick.

But to complete her revenge against the University of Arizona, the first thing Villanova has to do is guarantee victory in every game. The NCAA tournament is a brutal single-elimination system, and if you lose one game, come back next year. So Villanova doesn't need any surprises, what they're looking for is to crush their opponents with dignity.

As the No. 2 seed in the West, Villanova's first-round opponent is the University of San Francisco, and Chang Wei doesn't think this team poses any threat, after all, he doesn't remember any of the names on the roster. Moreover, this is a team with a forward scorer at its core, and this kind of team is Villanova's forte.

What's more, judging by the individual numbers of the University of San Francisco players, the team may be skewed towards individual singles, with no one on the team averaging more than three assists per game except for guard Jamal Cobb, who averages four assists per game. Lappers has clearly seen this too, so he's already started planning ahead for his players to practise full-court pressing tactics.

At the beginning of the game, Villanova did not press the whole court, but adopted a man-to-man defensive strategy. With the exception of Brown, who was a little helpless against Cobb, everyone else did a good job of guarding against their opponents.

The head coach of the University of San Francisco, Philip Matthews, has a grim face, and Cobb can't find a receiving spot, which is half useless, this guy can only contribute 6.6 points per game this season, and is not even as good as some of the team's bench players, and his biggest role on the court is to pass the ball to his teammates and sort out the team's offense. But now that no one can catch the ball, even if he barely receives the ball, there is no chance to shoot, so Cobb's existence has become very chicken.

Before the game, he always thought that Villanova would play against his team, and to be honest, if the two sides did play against each other, Matthews still thought the team would have a chance to win. But I didn't expect Villanova to not follow your plan, just to prevent all your scoring points, and it seems to work pretty well.

The most infuriating thing is that Villanova often picks up the speed on the defensive end, turning into a very pressing full-court press, and such a sudden change has also forced the University of San Francisco players to make mistakes many times, followed by Maddie or Battier's fast-break counterattack.

The University of San Francisco trailed by more than 20 points in the first half, and they were unable to close the gap, and in the end they had to lose by 39 points in a humiliating 58-97 defeat, creating the largest margin in the first round of the national championship.

After beating the University of San Francisco, Villanova is back in the next round, this time against the University of Illinois, a first-round upset knockout of No. 7 seed University of Illinois. Chang Wei was startled when he saw the name of this school, but he quickly reacted that this was not the University of Illinois, which later became dominant, but the University of Illinois, so there was no need to take it to heart, even if they completed the first round.

The school is a lot like Syracuse University, and their core combination is also a pair of wings: Rick Hill, who averages 18.4 points and 7.5 rebounds per game, and Dan Muller, who averages 13 points and 5.3 rebounds per game.

Faced with such an opponent, Rappers bluntly took out the same routine used in the Great East Conference finals, let Battier and Brand go against Muller and Hill, and then let Maddie act as the scoring arrow, and no one could guard him anyway.

Maddie didn't disappoint the manager, in fact, after being humiliated by Artest, he has developed a good habit of giving it his all against any opponent, not to mention the manager deliberately told him to score like crazy before the start of this game. Maddie scored 37 points, grabbed five rebounds and dished out eight assists to help his team finish the game with a 13-point advantage.

With one final game left before the Western Conference Finals, Chang Wei was pleased to see a familiar name from the roster of his next opponent, the University of Cincinnati — Kenyon Martin, the top pick in the 2000 draft. Although this guy has always been more heart-to-heart than paper, he is still an excellent interior player in the league. Villanova is too strong today, and Chang Wei is only a little excited to see the more famous stars in his previous life in the opponent's team.

Originally, in this game, Lappers hoped that the team could open up the situation on the outside, but he didn't expect that the day before the game started, Brand took the initiative to ask for the game, hoping to cut points desperately on the inside. Considering Cincinnati's weak interior strength, Rappers readily agreed to his request and made it clear that the others would try to pass the ball to the low post for Brand to play alone.

Martin was indeed a strong power forward in his previous life, but now he is still a rookie who averages 9.9 points and 8.9 rebounds per game, and his technical aspects are also very rough. Brand showed off his feet under the basket and hit him with a hit. Without a doubt, Brand was the star of the game, as he finished with 27 points and 15 rebounds, as well as five assists and two blocks, as well as a nine-point lead to the Western Conference Finals.

In the other half, the University of Arizona also made it all the way to the final ticket, and last season's tournament semi-finals are about to go ahead as everyone expected.